Morning edition...

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3 years ago
Topics: News, 2020, Freewrite, Life, Colum


First thought: the newspaper, that piece of paper most people do not come to to read. Imagine how the one who delivers it at 5 a.m. gets out, suffers while you are still in your bed or... try to drag yourself out.

In most cases the newspaper has to wait because it's reader is in a hurry. Off to work. A quick cup of tea or coffee, making lunch and a piece of bread on the way out that is called breakfast. The early news? It has to wait. The only reason the newspaper is still delivered is because you are used to it.

News? It's mainly about shouting headlines, headlines that rarely fit to the content but who cares? It's good enough to build an opinion about the nation, to get brainwashed about the 'sick, selfish people', corrupt governments, prizes raising and the next number of population diseased as a direct or indirect result of Covid-19. On the way you wonder how come no one dies of cancer, Hiv, diabetics, an heart attack or immune diseases in 2020. Suddenly there are no rapes and emigrants, no knife stabbers or people swinging with axes in the subway.

Finally back home after an exhausting day of hearing enough news, fake news, gossip the need to read the paper is vanished. It goes straight into the old paper can because you don't own a rabbit any longer. With an half eye you read a short message at the back of it about a fifty-year-old woman. She's stabbed. Stabbed to death while she delivered the newspaper. It wasn't her job but she did it to help out her sick child.

That woman... she delivered the same paper as you hold in your hand. Will her child continue delivering it at 5 a.m. because you want to know, read the morning news that badly?
It's time to cancel it. There's already enough misery spread. The feeling of guilt about the fact an innocent mother is killed because you want to read that paper so badly is one that's hard to deal with. Besides, who needs a paper. There's the internet, radio, tv, and reading isn't hot anyway.

#kittywu #columnist #freewrite #newspaper

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3 years ago
Topics: News, 2020, Freewrite, Life, Colum

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This edition is so much helpful

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3 years ago

I only have news papers I think twice a year. Newspapers are not delivered in here. We buy it in stalls. And yes there's no other thing in the news but about updates about Covid. Any issues regarding other matters like politics,_negative people are criticizing it. But we should continue to live and get back to our track and don't just concentrate on this pandemic. There are also other important things we need to divert our attentions to.

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3 years ago

I cancelled my paper a long time ago.

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3 years ago

We can learn news from other means anyway.

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